Finnish–English dictionary

viilenevä

Becoming cold.

viilentää

(transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.

viilentäminen

(uncountable) Refrigeration.

viilentävä

Causing cold.

viilentyä

(intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

viilentyminen

(countable) A decrease in temperature.

viilettää

To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.

viileys

A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

viiltää

To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.

viiltäjä

A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.

viiltävä

Able to pierce or penetrate

viiltelijä

A person or device that cuts (in various senses).

viilto

(card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.

viiltohaava

An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.

viilu

(nonstandard) A layer of veneer.

viiluttaa

(transitive, woodworking) To apply veneer to.

viime

Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.

viime aikoina

(idiomatic) In the recent past; recently; lately.

viime hetken

(idiomatic) Very close to a deadline.

viime hetki

(idiomatic) A point in time which is nearly too late; the last minute.

viime tinka

(idiomatic) An arbitrary (non-specific) point in time, too close to a deadline to reasonably begin a critical task.

viimeaikainen

Having happened a short while ago.

viimeinen

Pertaining to the finish or ending of a series of events; occurring at the end or after all others.

viimeinen avokortti

(poker) The last card dealt in a hand.

viimeinen henkäys

(euphemism) The last emission of breath; thus, .

viimeinen huuto

The latest sensation; the last word, the newest or ultimate expression or example (of something).

viimeinen kivi

(curling) The last stone in an end.

viimeinen tahto

(law) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his or her will as to disposal of his or her inheritance (estate and effects) after his or her death, benefiting specified heir(s).

viimeinen tuomio

The judgement day.

viimeinen universaali esivanhempi

(taxonomy, biology, paleontology) Initialism of last universal common ancestor; the hypothesised most recent primordial organism that is an ancestor to all organisms now living.

viimeinkin

In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.

viimeiseksi

(sequence) Used to mark the beginning of the last in a list of items or propositions.

viimeisimmät

Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.

viimeisin

Most recent, latest, last so far.

viimeistä edellinen

(UK, in, _, US, _, usually, formal) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.

viimeistelijä

A person who applies a finish to something, such as furniture.

viimeistellä

(transitive) To make final or firm; to finish or complete.

viimeistely

A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.

viimeksi

(sequence) after everything else; finally

viina

(colloquial, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage (especially beer or hard liquor).

viinaan menevä

(of a person) Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.

viinanhöyryinen

(of an event) Involving a large consumption of alcohol.

viinatrokari

One who is illegally a producer and/or trader of goods, especially of alcohol.

viineri

A sweet and flaky yeast-raised roll made from a dough using butter or margarine and filled with remonce (butter and sugar) or custard.

viini

(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.

viinihumalainen

Affected by the drinking of wine.

viinikellari

A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.

viinikivi

(organic compound) Potassium hydrogen tartrate (also called potassium bitartrate), a byproduct of wine manufacture, used in baking powder and in cooking to stabilize beaten egg whites.

viiniköynnös

The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow.

viinilasillinen

(countable) A serving of wine.

viinimäinen

Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine.

viinimarja

A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape, rarely more than 4 mm in diameter when dried.

viinimarjapensas

A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape, rarely more than 4 mm in diameter when dried.

viininen

Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine.

viininkorjuu

The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.

viininpunainen

Of a deep purple red color like that of Burgundy wine.

viininvalmistamo

A place where wine is made, or a company that makes wine.

viinitalo

A place where wine is made, or a company that makes wine.

viinitarha

A grape plantation, especially one used in the production of wine.

viinitila

A grape plantation, especially one used in the production of wine.

viipale

(obsolete) A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.

viipaloida

(transitive) To cut into slices.

viipaloija

Someone or something that slices.

viipalointikone

Someone or something that slices.

viipurinrinkeli

(culinary) A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot.

viipyä

(intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.

viipyillä

(intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.

viiri

(heraldiccharge) A triangular form having an angle at the fess point and the opposite side at the edge of the escutcheon.

viiriäinen

Coturnix coturnix, a bird in pheasant family.

viirinauha

Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.

viiru

A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.

viisaasti

In a wise manner; using good judgement.

viisari

A needlelike component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device.

viisas

Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct.

viisasteleva

(derogatory, chiefly, ironic) Attempting to appear discerning or wise.

viisastelija

A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.

viisi

The digit/figure 5.

viisikanta

The shape of a five-pointed star constructed of five intersecting lines meeting at the vertices, such that a central pentagon and five surrounding isosceles triangles are formed; often with magical connotations; a 5/2 (or 5/3) star polygon.

viisikko

(basketball) A basketball team, club or lineup.

viisikulmio

(geometry) A polygon with five sides and five angles.

viisikymmentä

The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.

viisikymmentäluku

The decade of the 1850s, 1950s, etc.

viisikymppinen

(countable) A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.

viisiminuuttinen

A short rest, especially one of five minutes.

viisisenttinen

(US, Canada, countable) A coin worth 5 cents.

viisitoista

The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).

viisivuotias

A person who is five years old.

viisivuotiskausi

(climatology) A five-day period, especially a temperature average taken every five days.

viistää

(transitive) To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer.

viiste

An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer.

viisto

Having a slanted or oblique direction.

viistoperä

A car with a sloping, hinged rear door that opens upwards.

viistorivi

Anything forming or resembling such a line, particularly:

viistota

(transitive) To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer.

viisumi

A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.

viitata

(intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.

viitata syyllisyyteen

(transitive) To indicate the guilt of.

viite

A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.

viitearvo

A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.

viitekehys

A set of assumptions, ideas and standards that form a viewpoint from which philosophical, religious and other ideas may be evaluated.

viitoittaa

(transitive) To install signposts on.

viitonen

The fifth of the gears of a transmission; in many motor vehicles built in the 1970s or later, it is the top gear, being the overdrive gear, although in the 21st century some vehicles have transmissions with yet more gears (e.g., 6, 7, 8), among both manual transmissions and automatic transmissions.

viitospari

(poker, _, slang) A pair of fives.

viitsiä

To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.

viitta

(nautical) A signal, buoy, post, or other conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners, particularly to warn vessels of danger.

viittaava

Tending to suggest or imply.

viittaus

(computing) Any of several methods of locating and accessing information within storage

viitteellinen

Serving as a reference.

viittilöidä

(ambitransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.

viittoa

(ambitransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.

viittoilija

One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.

viittoma

A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to word in spoken languages.

viittomakieli

(uncountable) Sign language in general.

viiva

A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.

viivain

A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement; a straightedge with markings.

viivästetty

Delayed; put off till later.

viivastoryhmä

(music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.

viivästyä

(intransitive, informal) To wait or delay.

viivästynyt

Delayed; put off till later.

viivästys

A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.

viive

A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.

viivoitettu

(of paper) Having lines, ruled.

viivoitin

The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.) [from 14th c.]

viivoitinpinta

(geometry) A skew surface.

viivoittaa

To mark or fill with a crosshatch pattern.

viivoitus

(art, drawing, drafting) A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.

viivytellä

(idiomatic) To purposefully cause a delay, in order to achieve something else.

viivyttää

To put off until a later time; to defer.

viivyttely

The act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially habitually or intentionally.

viivytys

(obsolete) Act of waiting; delay. [Attested from (1150 to 1350) to the early 17th century.]

vika

A moral defect; a character flaw.

vikaantua

(intransitive, of a machine, computer, vehicle, etc.) To stop functioning.

vikaantuminen

(countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.

vikellys

The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.

vikellysvyö

A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.

vikistä

To cry or sob softly and intermittently.

vikitellä

(transitive) To wheedle or persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.

vikkelä

Quick and light in movement or action.

vikkelästi

In a swift manner; quickly; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.

vikkelyys

rapidity of movement or activity; agility or dexterity

viklo

Any of two species of Old World wading bird in the genus Tringa that have long red legs.

viktimologia

The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons some people are more prone to be victims.

Viktoria

A en given name.

viktoriaaninen

A person born in or living in the Victorian period, or exhibiting characteristics of that period.

vikuroida

(intransitive, of a horse, _, or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.

vilahdella

To move, or cause to move, suddenly.

vilahdus

Chiefly followed by of: a brief and incomplete look.

vilahtaa

(intransitive) To be visible briefly.

vilaus

(slang, dated, UK) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.

vilauttaa

(transitive) To make visible briefly.